The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.

William Hope Hodgson publishes The Night Land: A Love Tale

Hilaire Belloc publishes The Servile State and The Four Men: A Farrago

E. Pauline Johnson publishes Flint and Feather

Founding of the Authors League of America; designed to protect the legal interests of writers and their works

Founded by Harriet Monroe in Chicago, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse begins publication; notable early contributors include T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and Vachel Lindsay

Zane Grey publishes Riders of the Purple Sage

Ezra Pound publishes Ripostes

Stephen Leacock publishes Sunshine Sketches in a Little Town

Gerhart Hauptmann receives the Nobel Prize for Literature

R.M.S. Titanic sinks on her maiden voyage

War is waged in the Balkans between Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Albania

Vorticism, founded by Wyndham Lewis, flourishes as a movement encompassing both the visual and literary arts

Tillie Olsen is born

Explore: I Stand Here Ironing, Tell Me a Riddle, Tillie Olsen

William Sansom is born

Explore: William Sansom, The Vertical Ladder

Barbara W. Tuchman is born

Ronald Frederick Delderfield is born

Lawrence Durrell is born

Explore: The Alexandria Quartet, The Avignon Quintet, The Revolt of Aphrodite, Lawrence Durrell, In Durrell's Justine, how does the city influence the characters' personalities and justify their behavior?

Irving Layton is born

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Takuboku Ishikawa dies

Bram Stoker dies

Explore: Dracula, Bram Stoker

May Sarton is born

Explore: May Sarton, As We Are Now

August Strindberg dies

Explore: Miss Julie, The Ghost Sonata, A Dream Play, August Strindberg

John Cheever is born

Explore: The Swimmer, The Country Husband, John Cheever, The Enormous Radio, How does "The Swimmer" address class?

Patrick White is born

Explore: The Solid Mandala, Voss, The Ham Funeral, The Tree of Man, Patrick White

Mary Lavin is born

Explore: Mary Lavin, Happiness, The Widow's Son

Jorge Amado is born

Explore: Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, Jorge Amado

Robert Lewis Taylor is born

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Eugene Ionesco is born

Explore: Exit the King, The Lesson, Eugène Ionesco

In a signal episode in his life, Sherwood Anderson suffers a nervous collapse and abruptly walks out of his business in Elryia, Ohio; after this event he began writing fiction in earnest

Gordon Parks is born

Explore: The Learning Tree, A Choice of Weapons, Gordon Parks